Transcript: Translating Promises Into Realities
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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. Good evening, everybody. There are many people that have seen great possibilities as believers. The more the year comes to an end, the more I think again and again and choose very carefully what I want to share with us by the spirit, delivering what I feel in my spirit that you need per time. And today, I'm gonna be sharing something that is not new, but be a reminder to some of us and be a great blessing to all of us. So I said there are many people who have seen great possibilities as believers, but the challenge that we usually experience as believers is that the possibilities of God are not often the realities of men. We don't know how to convert possibilities into realities. That something is possible does not mean that it has been realized. And what you read in scriptures every time you see scriptures are possibilities.
What you see in scriptures are the things that are possible, the things that God is able to do. But you'll agree with me that it is not so in the lives of several people. A lot of believers lead lives that are in direct opposition to the promises of God in scriptures, which further reinforces the fact that the fact that it is seen in scripture as a promise does not automatically experience of the same. And this is the reason why we teach God's word. If people automatically walk in all the possibilities shown in scriptures, there would be no reason to teach the word of God. The reason we teach the word of God is to bridge the gap between the promise and the experience of the promise. To show people that you can live in the experience of that which you read on that of that which we speak. Is that not so? That's the reason why we teach the bible. That's the reason why...
Or one of the reasons really why the teaching of the word is important. One of the reasons why you come to church on Sundays, why you come to church on Tuesdays to be equipped as believers is to bridge the gap between knowledge and experience. You see, when you get to a point as a believer that you continue to gather knowledge and that knowledge does not translate into experience, you will become frustrated. That Christianity will become a burden to you. And there are lots of people who has given up on Christianity because that has become their experience. They gathered a lot of knowledge that they cannot seem to juxtapose their experience from the knowledge that they've gotten. Is that okay? So they make conclusions that are unfounded. It is not God's will that you become delivered from Egypt and you end up in the wilderness. That's not God's will for you.
The idea is that you enter into the promised land. Remember that what was promised them was that you'll be taken out of Egypt into a land flowing with milk and honey. And so the deliverance, the salvation that the believer has received is not just a salvation out of, it is salvation into. You've not just come out of sin. You've not just come out of oppression and captivity of the devil. You have come into his marvelous light. You have come into abundance. You have come into... But you see, before you go into abundance, there is a space in between. It's called the wilderness.
The people of Israel did not just enter or leave Egypt and enter into the promised land. They have to spend some years in the wilderness. And the wilderness has an assignment in their life. What the wilderness was meant to do was to help them break out of the yoke that Egypt has had on them. Remember that there was a shorter route that they could have passed. I've shown you this in scripture. According to scripture, there was a shorter route that would have taken about fourteen days that they would have passed. What the shorter route would have done was that it would have exposed them to the battles of the promised land earlier than they were prepared to encounter. And it's like taking a slave who has always been a slave out of Egypt and exposing him to warfare. God saw that their heart were not prepared to take the land because taking the land involved warfare.
You will fight... In as much as God has promised you, you will fight for it. There are people who are dwelling there. It is called the land of the Canaanite. He suggested that people are there. And those people will not just leave the land because it is yours. In as much as God has given it to you, there is still some level of warfare that would go into the possession of that land. Do you understand my English? And God knew that these people are not prepared. They are just slaves.
They have not been trained in warfare. They have not been trained in the knowledge of God even. They've not seen the might of God. Egypt has had a hold on them. They are slaves in the heart even. So And the responsibility of the wilderness is to take Egypt out of them. So what happens is that deliverance takes you out of Egypt. Discipleship takes Egypt out of you. That's where you begin to learn God's word that makes everything you have been promised to experience. That's where you begin to know God and you are taught God by teaching priests like what happens here.
Are you with me? You can look into God's word, see things that are possible, and look into your life, and you see things that have not been realized in your life. There is a common challenge, and it most times get people tired of Christianity. They'll work out on Christianity if they don't know how to circumvent that challenge. Do you know that as a believer, you don't have to lose any battle? Do you know this? That you don't have to be a victim of any battle? I'm not saying as a believer, you will not be in battles or you will not experience battles, but that you don't have to lose any battle. You don't have to live without the result you need in your life. It is very possible to have a beautiful life as a believer.
It is very possible to have an abundant life, a fantastic life. As a believer, is that not what God promised? Jesus said I have come that you might have life and have that life more abundantly. Your your life can be a picture of abundance and not a picture of scarcity. And so as a believer, at every point your life is not yet like what God promised, you have a journey to take. Never be so satisfied with where you are that you refuse to contend for where you should be. The picture for the believer is that my life must be a semblance of what has been promised. What did I say? Yes. And it is possible to have an abundant life.
It is possible to have an abundant life as a believer. You can live big. You can live rich. You can be prosperous even at a young age. Yeah. The question is, do you know how to translate promises into experience? Do you know how to translate possibilities into realities? There are many people who have great ideas about their jobs, about their finances, about their ministries, about their businesses, about their careers, but they've not been able to convert even those ideas into reality. Great ideas about family, but they've not been able to convert those ideas into reality. When the bible says, God can do exceedingly abundantly above all that you can ask or think.
When you check your life, you'd have to ask, am I really experiencing the more abundantly above all I can ask or think? This scripture speak about the ability of God. That God can do beyond everything that ever crosses your mind. But the question is, are you experiencing things that are beyond what has crossed your mind? Do you understand the question here? When you see the ability of God expressed in scriptures, it should translate into your realities. It should translate into your reality. Otherwise, the bible start looking like an history book. The bible starts looking like a novel. No different from any other book.
Are you with me? Yes, sir. When things are not happening as you would expect them to happen in your life, And you start asking questions. Why is this not happening in my life? Why is my life like this? Usually, what religious people would tell you is don't ask God questions. Don't stop there. Don't ask God questions. But that's wrong because there are times where you have to ask God questions to move forward. In science, lightning does not strike at random.
You sit in your house and you see lightning strike. And you think that it is just a random occurrence. It happens because rain is falling and then lightning starts to strike anywhere. But science will teach you that when you see lightning strike, the striking of lightning is never random. That's the same way encounters are not random. Stay with me. You can check through scriptures and find out the reason why people had encounters. Because the way we make it seem is, see, in this thing, if it happens to you, just thank God. There are things that attract lightning. Lightning in sciences, they will teach you it follows the direction of electric charges.
There's a man that won the Guinness book of record for the most struck by lightning. I think he was struck maybe 13 times or so. It's not because his village people were following him. It is because he has studied what attracts lightning. So he's able to predict where lightning would be and to position himself as such. So that he's standing where the lightning would be. Do you understand what I'm saying? He knows where to stand and the lightning will meet him there. He knows where to stand. That's the same way you can learn God and also learn to stand where God will meet you there.
Are you with me? Yes, sir. And one of the ways the light of God encounters pierces into your spirit. One of the electric charge that direct the flow of encounters to you and the flow of light to you is to ask questions about your life and destiny if you want efficiency. Not because you want to question God. God, if this is possible, then why am I not seeing this? Show me what to do. You must learn to ask such questions. That is how life comes to people. When Gideon had an encounter, we saw the reason why it was Gideon that had the encounter.
When the angel told him... Came to him and said, oh mighty man of valor, the Lord of you too. We saw the question that Gideon had been asking that brought the encounter to Gideon. If the Lord is with us, then where are the miracles? Where are the miracles that our father said? Did God not bring us from Egypt? These were the questions in the heart of Gideon that necessitated that encounter. Do you understand what I'm saying? Paul was on his way to Damascus to go and terrorize and kill and murder certain believers. And on his way to Panama's court, he had entourages with him and in his mind, he was going there on a divine assignment.
In his mind, he was going there as a representative of the Lord doing the Lord's counsel. Are you with me? And then he has an encounter and the heavens are open and God appears to him and tells him why persecuted thou me. Look at the question that Paul asked him. And he said, who are you, Lord? In other words, he has been doing the assignment that he thinks that the Lord sent him. There's been a question in his heart as to whether the Lord that sent him is the Lord. Because all he knows is I'm passionate about this assignment, and if it is he has been brainwashed into believing that this is what the Lord has sent him to do. So somewhere in his heart, he has always wanted an encounter with that Lord that sent him. Because all that has happened to him is that he has been trained by the best schools, the scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees have taught him that this is what the Lord says.
Those people professing Christ, they are not of us. And it is the Lord's doing that we kill and silence them all. This is like a Islamic terrorist who has been indoctrinated to believe him that what God wants for him to do is to go into a church and kill everybody there, strap a bomb to his chest. And as he gets there, he explodes himself. And when he gets to heaven, there are some beautiful women waiting for him. And he has been he has been indoctrinated by men all his life. And because this is what he grew up believing, he has come to believe that this is what God wants of him. Somewhere in his heart, he's then thinking if I will die for this cause, can't I meet the God I will die for? Who who is this really... Who are you, Lord?
That has been the question in his heart. And on his way to go and kill people on an assignment for God, God now appears to him and say, why do you want to kill me? You don't understand my question. I'll be my my burden tonight. So the question now came to be, who are you? If this is you, then what about everything I was taught? Where do I put all the knowledge I've gained so far? I thought I was doing this serving you. That was the reason why that guy got an encounter. My point is that these things were not random.
Do you understand transit? Yes, sir. It means at every point in your life, there must be questions about life and destiny that brings encounters of destinies to you. If God excels people, why am I not excelling? Bishop Ouedepo said that he went and locked himself up for three days because the church was not growing, and the church had to grow. On the third day of that in... On of that retreat, lightning struck. So the question is, the encounter that struck him on the third day, how did it find his address? There was a question that had stood as an electric charge. Do you understand my point now?
The questions in your heart, not that you question God, but that you have questions about destiny and you insist I must get answers. So much so you are ready to go in prayers, go in fasting, seeking answers. These things are what routes light and encounters to your door. It is the next step. I got a word some months ago that I'm stepping into a new season, but I've not seen the result of that new season. What am I supposed to be doing? And I locked myself in prayer and fasting. And as I'm praying as I'm praying, I'm trusting God. I'm waiting on God, trusting God, waiting on God, listening to messages, new seasons of transitions, and all kind of things like that. And as I'm listening, I'm praying in tongues.
I'm praying in tongues, and suddenly, light strikes your spirit. Bishop Oitiko said on the third day, he just saw a vision. And he saw that as people were passing by, what they were seeing were white garment members in the church. And they thought that the church was a white garment church because that was what they were seeing physically. That all of them, they were wearing white garments when in fact, they were not. In other words, the devil had put a cloak on them that made them different in people's eyes. And they were doing ministry not aware that there was a cloaking device that had hidden them from the eyes of men. And the encounter would not have struck him if a question was not in his heart. Sir. He would have remained there for twenty years and say, let's be content with where God has put us.
If we're a pastor of twenty, let's be content. If I'm a pastor of 10, let's be content. A time comes when you say this must not be. So if this is why it is so, how do I come out of it? These questions is what you... Oh my god. Is it... When you say I'm going on a retreat, this is how you go on one. This is how you accumulate electric charge in the spirit that brings the flow of encounters to you. The bible said, I've not gone read your bible.
The bible said that Daniel understood by books the words of prophecy that was given by Jeremiah. And he knew that it was a time that the captivity of Israel was meant to be over, and the captivity was not yet over. Seeing that the captivity should have been over according to the prophet Jeremiah and Israel was still under captivity, there was a burden that arose in the heart of Daniel, and he went twenty one days prayers and fasting for answers. It was for that that an angel was released from heaven to come and give him light understanding. The way the angel was coming, the prince of Persia saw the angel coming to come and give light. The angel wasn't bringing deliverance. He was bringing light. It means there is warfare against light. The angel wasn't bringing cars. He wasn't bringing money.
He wasn't bringing anything. The devil will look for every opportunity and every excuse he can give you not to get light. The reason why this man locked himself up in a retreat was because he wanted light. He wanted understanding. And he started fasting, praying so that that light and understanding can come. When the angel appeared unto him eventually and was giving him an account of what had happened, telling him that the prince of Persia was the one that stopped him. What the angel said was I came to give you light, understanding. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. One, two, three.
Go. Of course, that's what he was praying for. Understanding. Twenty one days. Understanding. That's what the prince of partial stopped, understanding. So was that encounter random? Philip was an evangelist, and he was on the crusade ground. Signs and wonders, miracles, and aliens were happening left, right, and center. All of a sudden, he wasn't praying for that experience.
He wasn't fasting for that experience. He was just on his own doing ministry. All of a sudden, a whirlwind came, took him away. He was raptured from that point. The man must have been wondering what is happening. All of a sudden, he appears in a desert. And he's saying, what is this? One minute, was preaching in a crusade ground. The other minute he was in the desert. And as he was standing there saying, what is this?
Then he sees a man on a horse just coming just coming reading a bible, reading a scroll. And he's looking. And the holy spirit said, that's why I raptured you. Go and meet that man. And the man is there not even knowing that somebody was raptured for his sake. All he knows is that the man appears to him and tells him, do you understand what you are reading? And the Eunuch then replied, I don't understand. If only there was someone too. So there was a... As that guy was reading, there was a question in his heart.
Can there be someone to explain? And God was willing to rapture a man that was on a crusade ground to come and answer the question of another man. If the hell can I understand? I I wish there was someone to guide me. And immediately, he saw the question in his heart. He say, hi. Can I sit with you? And salvation came to Africa because a man was asking questions. That man is called the Ethiopian eunuch. He was the one that brought salvation to Africa.
That was the first African to be saved in scripture. So you see that there is a way encounters are routed to men. There is a way light pierces the heart of men. It is not that you go and lock yourself three days prayer and fasting with nothing, no expectation whatsoever. You were just told to go on a retreat and in your mind, oh, we are going on a retreat. Apostle said end of the year retreat and you go and get a message and they told you or did all your lives. So you start thinking, how did I even go? My finances, I I need to make more money next year. And right now, I must make more money next year. My spiritual life, I wasn't praying enough.
I wasn't praying enough. I told myself I will pray one hour every day. I wasn't able to pray one hour every day. Next year, I must pray one hour every day. Are you not tired of lying to yourself? Because isn't that what we do every year? And that's not even last January. You see, for next year now, next year, you will find out that everybody must start doing journals. You see, come and write your resolutions. Come and write the resolution.
Then each church will be sending their own. You see, write the things you would do. Write the things you would... I don't know that you need the help of his spirit. What you want to do is is mental work, is brain work. You never went with questions to be answered because it's not your brain that will supply answers. That thing will generate answers from the spirit realm. There will be light that will pierce into your spirit as answers to the burdens of your heart. That's why the bible says, come everyone who test. Come without money.
Come and buy. And when he tells you what you are buying, he says you are buying milk. Milk signify revelation. Milk signify understanding. The bible says as newborn babies desire the sincere milk of God's word. The bible says the entrance of your word gives light and it gives understanding. That means that if it is milk that you want, you come with test. You come with hunger, with questions as to what areas of your life requires that light and revelation. Why am I not making progress in this area? What am I required to do in this area?
And God comes to you bringing answers, and God comes to you bringing light. Father, I know that you help people succeed, but what is going on in my life? Why am I not succeeding? Show me what to do. You ask questions in areas of your life that needs a shift, where you need a change. Questions are like charges that attract the lightning of encounters. Don't assume that these questions are not there. Go to God with the mind to receive answers. You don't question God, but you can ask God questions. I quote the scriptures.
I have revelation on this subject, but I'm still experiencing terrible loss in this area. What is going on? Why is it that everybody that promises me breakthrough, promises me opportunities, never get to see it done? Why is that every competition I apply for, I have failure at the edge of breakthrough? I'm always always close to it, but never reaching it. And I've seen this pattern five times in my life, six times in my life. This can't be normal. Give me light and understanding. Open my eyes that I may see. And I go to God in prayers, and I'm praying.
Apostle has prophesied. When he prophesied, I received that word. I knew it was mine. This is the fifth month into it. I've not seen manifestations yet, yet I know that this word is mine. I know by the spirit. What am I missing? What am I missing? What am I missing? Until my only gates is you, spirit keep rooting over me till I look just like you.
You see, some days ago somebody called me and was delivering a bad news to me. And the person was very sorrowful when she was talking to me because she felt that what she was telling me was a bad news. But if she came with questions, if she probably asked God questions, she would have found out that that's the best thing that has happened to her all year. Hey. Mean that she was talking to I saw in the realm of the spirit. But I don't know how to start telling... Because I can't tell her that this thing is a good news. You probably stoned me. You will need light to supply that knowledge to you. Because even if I tell you, there is nothing you will lose that information for.
Because it's a man that is telling you. But when light comes, light I'm teaching you how to get results. I'm teaching you how to translate promises into experiences, how to translate possibilities into realities, how to cross into next levels, how to shift into dimensions of your life that you know God has written concerning you. Is somebody with me? Yes, sir. Thank you, Jesus. As far as the heavens is from the earth, so are my ways far from yours. So are my thoughts far from yours. As far as the heaven is from that. The major thing that God supplies to you that turns possibilities into experience, the major thing that God supplies to you that turns promises into realities, which is what is missing the life of several believers is wisdom.
In Proverbs chapter four verse seven, the bible says wisdom is the principal thing. Therefore, get wisdom. And in all your getting, it says get understanding. Wisdom is a principal thing. Therefore, get wisdom. In all you're getting, get understanding. In verse eight, it says, exalt her. Exalt wisdom, and she will promote you. Promotion means changing levels. It means changing levels in your jobs, changing levels in your finances, changing levels in your ministry, changing levels in your business, changing levels in your life, changing levels in God's purposes for you.
And the bible says wisdom will promote you. This means wisdom helps you move to the next level of your life. It means if I'm meant to move to the next level of my life, there is a level or dimension of wisdom that must be supplied to me. The bible says, cherish her, exalt her. And what will happen is that you would find wisdom start promoting you. Exalt her, and you will find that wisdom starts to bring you honor. So whenever there is a prophecy of promotion on you, whenever there is a season of honor on your life, or God has told you that there is a shift in levels or promotion or your mental cross levels or your mental come up either. This bible verse now shows you what you need to start doing. You need to start exalting wisdom. And as you do so, he says, she will promote you.
She will bring you honor. She has the capacity to do all of these things. And what I wanna teach you is the three expressions of wisdom that must be found in your life to translate possibilities into experiences and promises into realities. Remember that the bible says that the fear of God, the reverence of God is the beginning of wisdom. Are you with me? Yes, sir. It means when you wanna journey into wisdom, there is reverence for God that launches you into your journey of wisdom. But the bible says that it is the beginning. The beginning. It's not all there is to wisdom, but it helps you start in this journey of wisdom.
Are you with me? Yes, sir. The first type of wisdom as revealed in scriptures or in the New Testament in fact is what is called Sofia. What the bible calls Sofia. I want us to pray and so I'll be fast. Because the bible says if any man lacks wisdom, if any man lacks wisdom, let him ask. I thought some people I said the problem is not even asking. The problem is first realizing you lack. Because nobody will tell you that you lack wisdom and you say thank you. It looks like an insult.
If somebody tells you that, you know, you're not wise. You don't say, thank you. I did not know. Thank you. Of course, you know, man that not go and start asking God. No. What happens there is how will you say I'm not wise? Because every man is wise in his own eyes. Every man is wise in his own eyes. That's why there is a part of the bible that addresses people who are wise in their own eyes.
He said let that man realize that he's a fool. I love the bible. Then you will be wise. Talking about those who have clicked themselves in self deception. Let that man first realize he's a fool. Stay with me. The first level of wisdom that a man must have is what the bible calls Sophia. So fear speaks of insights into realities. Insight into realities. It speaks of insight into realities.
In literal terms, it means theoretical wisdom. But I'd like to stay with that definition, insight into realities. In first Corinthians chapter 30, the bible says, but of him you are in Christ Jesus who became for us, Sofia. The word wisdom there is the word Sofia. Who became for us, Sofia, from God. In other words, Christ is wisdom unto you. Christ is Sofia unto you. And how did I describe that word? I said it is insight into realities. That means Christ is your insight into reality.
That's where wisdom begins from. You know, I said wisdom is reverence for God. It begins from there. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. The word fear is the word reverence. That means wisdom must begin with Christ. Do you understand what I'm saying? So this is where it begins from, but it's not the end of it. If you don't have this, you have not even started your journey into wisdom. And if this is all you have, you might still feel.
Stay with me. Christ is your insight into reality. Anything that is not in Christ is not real in you. That's the meaning of insight into reality. It means if failure is not in Christ, failure is not my reality. Wisdom is to have insight into reality, to look into life and be able to have insight. Are you with me? So we are saying that Christ is that right insight that must... That a man must have into reality. In other words, you must look through Christ to see life.
So whatever is not in Christ is therefore not my reality. This is how you move from possibilities into realities, from promises into experiences. You must first know who you are and what is in you. What is reality for you? You must see your life through the lens of what Christ has done for you. So when they talk about generational curses for instance, you remember that he has delivered you from the authority of darkness, and he has translated you from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his dear son. This means inside Christ, there is no generational curses. Are you with me? Yes, sir. But can people be in bondage?
Can believers be in bondage due to generational curses? Yes. But inside Christ, can you find generational curses? No. So the question is where are you? You are inside Christ. So even when your life is trying to look like there are curses or there are patterns that you are seeing that might not align with what Christ has done for you. When you see that there are negative negative patterns, patterns, you you are are you are seeing them forming. You can see situations arising here and there around you that resembles the pattern of event you have seen in your father's house or the pattern of event you've seen in your mother's house or that looks as though this might be a curse manifesting, you must first stand where reality is because that is not reality. And the bible says this is where wisdom begins from.
Reality is where crisis. If you don't see your life the way you are in Christ, then that generational curse indeed will manipulate you. It will manipulate the result in your life. I found that believers who don't know that they are in Christ go through the toughest times and are always in constant need of deliverance. Believers who don't know that they in Christ, they are the ones that give pastors the biggest issues, the biggest problem. Especially pastors who teach the word of God, who cherish the word of God, not people who like to to do deliverance. Though there are pastors who like to do deliverance. For those ones, the demonized believer is a customer. There are men of God like myself who prefer believers who are standing well, standing on their two legs because deliverance for me is stressful. You it's something that we should probably do once in a while because the believer is meant to be standing.
The believer is meant to be mature. But when you see believers who don't know who they are in Christ, who don't see life through the lens of Christ, the devil, life, everything will manipulate their lives. They are the kinds of believers who see devils everywhere. They see devils on the doorknob. They see demons on the mirror. They see demons on the comb. They see demons in the book. They see demons in the car. They see demons on the driver. They see demons on the road.
They see demons in the bed. They see demons in the roach. They see demons in the lizard. Everywhere, there's a demon. And they think that you win a record by being able to identify where demons are. There's no record for that. Will you win a record for casting them out? Yes, sir. For ethnifying your authority over demons. The bible says, when I cast out a devil, then as the kingdom of God come, not when I see a devil.
The mere ability to tell that this is demons doesn't show that you are you are anything. There are believers who think people should honor them because they can see demons. Somebody is passing. Say, I just saw now. I just saw. Be be praying. Be praying. I just saw now. If you don't pray, if you don't pray, and you think all the theatrics and the drama that you do to deliver your message makes you deeper, makes you shallow. You are just shallow.
If someone like that meets me, it's in honor that I will not embarrass you. It's because of honor because the bible says to honor all men. If not, I will show you the uselessness of your revelation right there and then. You with me, brothers and sisters? The bible says we have a more sure word of prophecy. Where the believer starts, the ex... The first expression of wisdom is what Christ has done. But I must be able to see my life, see myself, see my situation from the lens of what Christ has completed, from the finished works of Christ. Remember, this is the beginning. Sir, have finally found out what is wrong with me.
So when you have found out what is wrong with that, have you dealt with it? Why are you announcing it? I know what is wrong with me. Someone in my family is the one that's responsible for this problem. My mother has told me that, in fact, I went to go and see a prophet. And the prophet told us that our great great grandfather was the one that went to a tree, and an idol came out of that tree. And my my grandfather now told... Now said that the child that the the child that they give, the umbilical cord of that child, they must bring it back to the tree. When they now brought it back to the tree, one idol came out and now took the umbilical cord. He now ate it.
He now say, as I've eaten this umbilical cord, that's how I'll be eating every first first born. Oh. And sir, I'm a first born. Oh. So now, in my dream, I'll now see umbilical cord tying me up and down, and it's it's rolling around me. And that's somebody I want to hit me in my dream. So I've seen it finally. I've seen it. Glory to God. So now that you have seen it, will you stop me from dying?
Will you stop you from dying? The person who did not see anything and stood on God's word is better than you. That you saw it is not breaking news. That you are able to exercise your authority in Christ to dismantle principalities, powers, demons, and and their works. That is breaking news. And it's not a bad thing if you see it. It should only give you more advantage to know exactly what to deal with and call them by their name and say demon. I challenge you by the name of Jesus. If I had not seen it, I would not have known that that's the name of the guy. But even if I don't know, I can't categorize them because the bible says that of every name that is named.
Of names and so... Both of us are... So if I if I saw it, glory to God. If I did not see it, glory to God. Where wisdom begins is being able to view your life, the realities around you, situations around you from the lens of the finished works of Christ. Are you with me? Yes, sir. You can look around you and see patterns, and you will know that these patterns are sponsored by authors. But again, you can look in Christ and see authority. You can exercise your authority in dealing with those patterns.
If it looks as though the patterns are persistent, I go for three days fasting and prayer and break the thing. But I don't look at my life from the lens of the patterns. That is not reality. Wisdom is insight into reality. It means having insight into an issue is wisdom. And it's not just wisdom. It's having insight to see an issue the way Christ sees it. So no doubt, there are maybe patterns that might... I I might have seen in my life. Say I'm going through something for instance, and I'm in the heat of it.
I must understand that my life is not defined by that. Where my life starts from is seeing the authority that Christ has gotten over that problem, over that situation, standing from that perspective. I don't deny that this problem is there, but the problem is not reality. Are you with me? Yes, sir. I stand from reality and address situations and address problems and address patterns. So the moment I see, the moment I understand that this is what is happening, this is what is happening. I've seen it over and over again. I can stand in one night and say, what is this? Declare a personal prayer and fasting for myself.
12AM in the middle of the night, I wake up and I say I want to address this problem. Is that okay? Yes, sir. Stay with me. You'll be so blessed. I want to address this problem. Alright? Then then I start exercising my authority over that issue. That is Sofia. That is wisdom.
You can put patterns to an end by yourself. I'm telling you, even if you look around you and you see patterns, understand that your reality is first seen through Christ. You stand from that place to destroy and take down those things. You're planning for... Maybe you're planning to go abroad or something or you're planning to get married or you're planning anything. And this thing is an iconic event in your life. And all of a sudden, from nowhere, problems start arising left, right, and center. And somewhere in your mind, you start remembering that this thing you are about to do, nobody in your family has ever done it. These are broad they are processing. This university that you are in, you come from a family that there is abject poverty and you are trying to break ground and do something that nobody has ever done before.
And that thing starts telling you, that's the reason why you're going through all these problems. That's the reason why they're attacking you. That's the reason why they're It might be true in that there are problems all around. Are you with me? But that is not reality. It means I don't have to accept that and say, ah, it's because people have not done this before. Ah, see what I'm even trying to do. I don't even respect myself. I I used to myself, I don't even think well. Is it mean that he's not trying to do this one?
I I I... Some people will fail or they won't get maybe a computer they applied for. I know why they will tell you themselves. They knew it. They are competing for something and say you lost it. He said, I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. It's somebody like me they are looking for. You knew what?
You knew you will fail. You knew you will fail. That's no reality. I go and check my result. And somebody sees maybe 33 over 100. And he said, knew it. That's a foolish believer. Not an insult now, but a believer who is not wise. You understand what I'm saying? Because Sofia is not in you.
You have not seen life through the lens of the finished work of Christ. So you have defined yourself as a failure. Sofia teaches you that I'm not one that fails because the life of God is in me. Hey, God of Nazareth. A open door happens to you in your business, and you get your contract, a contract. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me. Hear me.
Let me finish. You get a contract, and the person promises you or you sign a contract, say 200,000,000 naira. 10,000,000, 50,000,000. And then they say, this is the first time that this is happening to you. And that is the first time that it's a big thing happening, and you start wondering, hey, Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Will it happen again? How am I sure that I will even get this thing again? Or maybe somebody even blesses you by favor.
How am I sure that this will even happen again? How am I sure that this thing will not be the last? And then fear arises from there to now start preserving that amount of money so that you will not waste it. You'll not develop an attitude of frugality sponsored by canality. You are afraid of giving. You are afraid of sowing seeds. You are afraid because somewhere in your mind, you are wondering, checking him out. Will like will I will he come? Will I get? Will I this?
Will I that? How can I even sacrifice? He sacrificed. How do I know? How am I sure? Sofia is missing. That's a foolish believer because it means you have not started seeing life. You see, insight into reality. Life has not been defined by Christ yet to you. And so for me as as as a believer, when that happens to me, I can empty and sacrifice and give as God decides that I should give because I know that a new open door or a new level of opportunity that that happens to me cannot be the last.
Because... Let me tell you why. The reason is because the life that sponsors that opportunity or that open door... Remember, the bible says I've come that you might have life. And the bible that describes what that life does, he called it abundant life. So it means anytime there is an opportunity for abundance in my life, it is life that supplied it. You're not getting what I'm saying. What is the description of that life? Eternal life. It means it does not finish.
Oh. Stop. Mhmm. Stop. It means it means somewhere in my mind, I'm I'm powered by a mentality that there is more where it came from. I'm not afraid of not having cash at hand. And there are many times I don't have cash at hand. There are many times I don't have cash at hand. Yet you will hear me say I'm blessed because I'm not speak... Reality has been altered.
I can only see life from one lens, from one perspective, from one viewpoint. And that viewpoint is that he became poor that I might be rich. The life that is in me is abundant, and it is eternal. It means I will eternally be abundant. There is no way it came from. If I sign a deal of 10,000,000, there's more where it came from. If I gave a seat of 1,000,000, there's more where it came from. So so so so things cannot leave me, and I'm afraid of things finishing. You're not understanding what I'm saying. The eternal life in you is is abundant in quality.
Super abundant in quantity. Do you know what it means? It means it means it means if I give an idea and somebody steals the idea, of course, wisdom will teach you how to protect the idea next time. But that I will not be afraid that, you have stolen my idea because there's more where it came from. There is an ocean, a well on the inside. Wisdom will teach you protect this thing next time. So that this thing does not happen again. But by the fear of... Somebody said apostle, We must record your song because people will start stealing it. I said let them steal everything.
There's still more words coming from. I can sit down in one one hour and write times 10 of what I currently have. It's a life that supplies it. Super abundant in quality means that if it is now a 100 that comes out of me, it does not go down in quality the more it comes. It means it only gets better I'm better. I'm better. I'm better. That's the life of my inside. Sofia teaches me. So this is the viewpoint from whence I see life.
So I can walk around in confidence. And somebody asked me, what is the basis of your confidence? And I can't I can't lay my hand on any physical thing that I have to say it's because I have a house, it's because I have a car, it's because I have a wife, it's because I have a desk. Am I just be living in a one room? And yet I'm as confident as someone staying in a penthouse. And you are wondering, but how how how are you how are you this bold and confident that is someone that is powered by Sofia. It means that my life... The way I see life now has been... Reality has a different meaning to me. Reality now has a different meaning.
Hi. I asked someone. I said I said, what's the guarantee? What's the guarantee that will be great? What's the guarantee that all these things we are already... What's the guarantee? What makes us so happy that we'll come and stand? And we'll say, welcome to the largest gathering of young people in Nigeria, and we are gathering those 300 people. What is the guarantee? Is Sofia Yes, sir.
Is that when we stand to declare, we are not declaring from a standpoint of what our eyes see. We don't have a deeper insight into reality. So I can be a pastor of 10, but I'm seeing 10,000. Because when I see scriptures, it says a small one shall be, come, a thousand. So I can stand at the 10 people and tell them. When I tell people, God is making a nation out of you. How do I know? How do I... What's the guarantee that that guy won't just end up at the teacher somewhere? Oh, Jesus Christ.
One of my guys came to me and told me that the headmaster of the school where he works was addressing the teachers in the teachers conference. And he says, look at look at... And he measured the name of the guy. So look at him now. Look at him. There's no amount of money you want to reduce from his salary that will not threaten him because the guy is no longer working for my money. He said, I know. I know. You see, if you if you tell him now that because you came late, we will remove this amount of money. He will do you think thank you, sir?
He said he said he said, look at him now. He will see student and be giving them to go and buy food, to go and buy food, to go and buy this one. You see, in this economy where teachers are are are hiding their money, it was... The man was using his life to talk to others. I said, I know this one is not working for my money Because it has become bigger than the system. And that's not even the best that God is doing. My point is my point is, but if that is already happening, then it proves that more will happen. But the question is, even before that started manifesting, how do you look at someone who has no record or nothing that looks like there is beauty in that life? And look at the life and say nations will come out of you. You must be speaking from a standpoint where you have a a level of insight into the man's reality that is beyond what the physical realm suggests.
Yes, sir. That is where we speak from. That's the assurance we have. It is called Sofia. Men like that are wise, and that is the beginning of wisdom. It's not natural. Are you with me brothers and sisters? In Christ, my reality is that I am blessed. In Christ, my reality is that I am healed. In Christ, my reality is that I am prosperous.
So I can look at even the symptoms I'm currently having in my body. And it's not as though the symptom has completely left, but I have a deeper insight into that reality. And I'm able to call myself healed. Oh, Jesus. Sometime ago, I had a condition. I lost consciousness and they had to carry me very fast. I'm not sure whether I was still in the school or I finished. And they had to carry me very fast. My mother came, rushed me to the hospital. When we got there, they pumped me full of drips.
That was my first time I was taking drips and I vowed never to take it again. Because I could not understand why they were giving me the thing in my hand and I was feeling it in my tongue. It was it was it was a very confusing thing. And I remembered what they thought was in pharmacology. I said, oh, but it was horrible. The taste of that thing was was horrible. And I don't like, hey, Jesus. At the fifth time, then I saw the doctor coming inside. And they were removing it and bringing... I said, I'm not taking again.
My mother was there. She said no. No. No. You have... I said I'm not taking again. She said no. We can't... I said you cannot force me to take what I don't want. I'm not taking again.
My mother said,. The next thing was to receive injections. And I had a total of about 15 injections to take. My mother is aware of this, so I'm not exaggerating. We were going through the thing. It was a terrible condition. No no man should have. When you heal people, it's a testimony. Stop. Stop.
Stop. Hey. Some of you feel as though because you heal somebody with headache is not spectacular. Wait until you have headache. Wait until you have headache. Get a headache you will have. Color will change in your eyes. You will not be able to tell black from blue. You want to read physiology, you carry chemistry. You don't even know.
There is nothing that God does that is not spectacular. I I have I have no... I know this by experience. Even is terrible. Because there are people that feel like if I've not collected crutches, I've not healed the sick. And so you undermine every simple thing that God is doing through you. That's not... We... Fifteen injections. And I remember I would be driving.
They will carry me, I'll be in car on the way to the hospital going to go and take the injection. And I'm dressing up going, all I'll be saying is I am healed. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. I am healed. Thank you, Jesus. I am healed. Thank you, Jesus. I am healed. And it wasn't as though somebody was confessing something to be.
You don't understand my point? I wasn't saying it from a standpoint of confessing the reality I wanted to see. I was saying it from the standpoint of this is currently my experience in as much as I was going to take injection. I saw it from a man of God who I went to visit, and I had to ask him questions Because he had had a wound on his leg, and the wound was being treated. And he was he was he was in... He was... There was a bandage there, and I was just saying thank you, Jesus, as we're we're working together. Oh, thank you, Jesus. And he was rejoicing that my leg is healed. Thank you, Jesus.
And he will sit down. The nurse will come and treat the leg. I was just observing. And I said, sir, are you confessing to be healed? He said, no. I'm confessing because I am healed. I asked him explain. I did not understand the explanation then. It was as I agree that I now understood that what he was functioning in his wisdom. Is that in as much as that thing was still there, reality was now different.
It was... He had insight into a deeper perspective. He had... He he was seeing that experience from the standpoint of the finished works of Christ. Are you with me? Yes, sir. And because of this, he could start declaring what has been done. He could start declaring what has been done. He could start declaring what has been done. What should have taken that leg was healed in about two weeks.
When they finished with my injection, the doctor said, this is the fastest recovery we have ever seen. Injection was part of the recovery, but injection was not the reason for the recovery. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I know more now never to even be in that situation again. Are you with me? Yes, sir. But from where I was those days, even as I was there, there was still enough consciousness to rejoice in healing. I wasn't looking for pity from anybody. I was a pastor.
A president was already holding. I was not in the meeting for about three weeks or so. When I called my workers, they said that they thought I went on a retreat. Yes, sir. Because nobody knew any... I I I wasn't looking for pity. I wasn't looking for people. I'm like, hey. Apostle. Apostle.
Pray for apostle. No. Never. Never. It will never happen again that I will not be in a meeting because I'm sick. No. That experience taught me several things. It it... I came out with light and revelation. Light and revelation.
It was the last time that I've ever missed a meeting because I'm sick. It was about three years ago. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Yeah. We are not teaching you cunningly devised fables. It's not what our ears have heard. It is that which our eyes have seen, our ears have heard, our hands have handed. And so when we say that you can declare with assurance, not of somebody trying to convince himself, but of someone speaking from a realm where he is, But I am blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed.
So when you read the bible and you find whatever is born of God has overcome the world, that is Sofia. You then continue to learn. You'll find out that that world there means cosmos. And cosmos means the orderly arrangement of things. So it means whatever is born of God has overcome the orderly arrangement of things in this world. That means when someone says in this in this... In Nigeria, you get a job in the civil service or get any type of job really, and they start paying you maybe 50 k to 100 k, and you start living your life small small, and you maybe get a wife. And after some years, you're able to save up, get a car loan, get a car, be paying for the car small small, and then you get a wife, you marry him, then get the children. Be careful, though. Don't put your children in expensive school.
Put them where your money can handle. You know there is Montessori and there's grandma school. All those Montessori is not for you. Take them to grammar school. So when you take them there like this, after, like, fifteen years, you would have settled to buy a piece of land. And when you buy a piece of land finished, you'll now be able to start building. You lay the foundation. Come back after two years again. Continue to erect the structure. Come back after four years again.
Continue to erect the structure. After, like, seven years, you will finally now roof it. There's no window. There's nothing. No. But you can move into the house. Now come and set a testimony in church that we thank God though God has delivered us from landlords. We are now a landlord. Even though there is no window, there is no tiles, there is no plastering, there is nothing, but we have a house over our head, and we have roof over our head. While we are there, we will not be putting this small, small, and it takes us fifteen years to even finish it.
And at the end of all our lives, we now thank God that, ah, God. I thank God I'm not like my mate. That's the orderly arrangement of things. The bible says, whoever is in Christ, whoever is born of God has overcome that orderly arrangement of things. So how people do it is not my business. Listen. It's from that realm. It's Sofia. It's from that realm that we speak. So a man can sit down and light David's spirit, and he will say, I am giving my first million next month.
You you look at him and you say, how? That he doesn't even know how. Even him that is speaking does not even understand what... Where the thing came from. And he's not trying to convince himself. He's speaking with audacity. Sofia. In Nigeria, how should someone in this economy be able to give 7 figures? Be able to give 8 figures. Yet people in this church are giving it like water.
One of my guys told me, he said, sir, I don't know how, but I'm giving my first 100,000,000. You see, when you talk to people who have not entered this expression, this laughter that will burst out Because you just think the person talking is a fool. My ways are not your ways. Neither are my thoughts your thoughts. When you look through life in the realm of... From the lens of Christ, you find that our Christ has overcome the world. And that victory that overcame the world, the bible called it our faith. This is the victory that overcomes the world. Even our faith. Even our faith.
Whatsoever is born of God can jump in one year and build a mansion. They say they say they say they say say why? Because whatsoever is born of God overcomes the orderly arrangement of things. Whatsoever is born of God can give 1,000,004 times in one month. The second dimension of wisdom that is seen in scripture is called. What did I call it?. In second Timothy two and the seven, the bible says consider what I say. Consider what I'm teaching you. Consider what I say. And may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
The word understanding there is the word synopsis. Sometimes, they don't use wisdom. It's the word synopsis. Synopsis. Understanding in how many things? All things. All things. Synopsis. Synopsis is the ability to understand concept. Not that most of the times when you see sunesis, you are...
You most time find all. The word all is used to describe it. I'll tell you why. Sunesis is the ability to understand concepts and to see the relationship between these concepts that you have understood. Synopsis is like analytical knowledge. It comes from putting scriptures together and getting balanced wisdom. Synopsis is knowing all there is to know about this object. What did I say? About In the Colossians one nine, the bible says for this reason we also, since the day we heard of it, do not cease to pray for you and to ask you that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all Sofia and spiritual. Are you with me?
Yes, sir. So when you look at second Corinthians chapter eight verse nine where the bible says, through his poverty, I've been made rich. That's the truth of scripture. Right? Philippians four nineteen, my God shall supply all my needs according to its riches in glory. I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper even as thy soul prospereth. Shout unto the Lord who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. The Lord has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. Shout unto Lord those that favor his righteous cause for the Lord has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. When I see these things, I step into a realm of Sofia to know that this is how Jesus sees life through.
This is how my life is, that I'm prosperous already, not because of what I have really, but because of what I am in Christ. Are you with me? Yes, sir. That is Sofia. After that, you must then start to get balanced wisdom on prosperity. It is called. You start understanding the concept of prosperity itself and start seeing the relationship between this concept. Why I said all is important is because you might understand one concept or should I say one part of a concept or one concept of a topic, and you are still not wise. If it is sonesis, it gives you balanced knowledge, balanced wisdom. You are able to process all the concepts together and see how they relate with one another.
Do you understand what I'm saying there? Yes, sir. Uh-huh. So you then start getting balanced wisdom on prosperity. You start understanding the concept of prosperity itself and start seeing the relationship between this concept. So you study scriptures and you find that prosperity is supernatural. In other words, it is not super super. There is the side of God which is super. There is the side of man which is natural, ends towards supernatural. Are you with me?
Yes, sir. There's a God part to it, and there's a man's part to it. That that is Sunesis. Sofia says, I'm rich. Sunesis says, how will you see the money enter your hand? Sofia says, I'm an excellent student, 10 times better than all my colleagues. Sunesi says, how will your grade go from 33 to 98? Are you with me? Yes. Sunesis now looks into the word of God and finds out how Sofia becomes an experience.
You then see, oh my goodness. There is he that scatter it and yet increase it. There is he that withholdeth more than his meat and intended to poverty. Give and it shall be given. Shaken together, pressed down, running over, shall men give onto your bosom. I start seeing it. I start seeing the book of Corinthians where Paul is saying that you should sow your seeds and you should give bountifully and not sparingly. For when you give bountifully, you have a bountiful harvest. When you give sparingly, you have a sparing harvest. I said, my goodness.
I'm seeing that giving is very important to prosperity. That without giving, it is impossible for a man to prosper, especially as God prospers men. Are you with me? Yes, sir. You see, the fact that you found this out about prosperity doesn't mean you have gotten to nurses. So nurses is not just getting one part of it. It is the ability to know everything about that subject. Getting balanced wisdom on a concept. So you say, I understand that you have to give. So you start giving, but you have not seen the path of diligence or that your hand must work through something.
Someone may seek diligence and now come and say, it's not about giving. Don't mind all these pastors that talk about giving. You don't have to give to prosper. You only have to work with your hand. And then you start building, and life will wait for fifteen years before it crushes you. Because even is missing. It's not understanding just one part. It is the the wisdom to get balanced knowledge of a subject in scripture. The ability to see giving as it relates to prosperity. Diligence as it relates to prosperity.
Working, thinking, praying, and being able to work everything together to produce with what in your life. So that as I walk, I pray, I give, I think, I'm diligent, I'm excellent because I see everything in scriptures. I don't choose one and say this is one I camp with. Uh-uh. A man that has is barely ever stranded because he knows what to do in situations. He understands God's word. So you see six sowing in prosperity. Right? Because Peter gives Jesus his boat. That is his sixth son.
You will see prophetic words and prophetic instructions in prosperity because Jesus said, cast your nets into the waters. Then you will see diligence in prosperity. Peter casting his nets into the waters and catching the fishes as Jesus has said, diligence. Then you see partnership in prosperity. How that Peter went to go and call all his friends to help him in... You have seen everything as it applies together and it concerns the subject of prosperity,. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Daniel was 10 times better because an excellent spirit was upon him. Then you say, how did it happen?
Then you see he gave himself to a routine. Daniel being 10 times better was said about him at the end of that routine. Then you said, if I'm gonna be 10 times better, it is not just a reality I declare. I must give myself to a particular routine. If it is one hour of study every day I do, if it is too hard of study every day I do, It is that routine that makes me consistent, and the consistency furnishes excellence in me. So when they ask me about this subject, I'm able to answer. And it's been 10 times better. Because the bible says there was no matter of wisdom or knowledge that the king tested them in that they were not able to answer. It means being 10 times better is not just because oil is upon me, it's because there is knowledge in my brain. So if I'm 10 times better, I'm not the only one that will know it.
My examiner will know it. Because it was not even Daniel who said it was 10 times better. It was a report about him after he had been tested. The bible says he was found. That was the report that they gave concerning him. Thank you, Lord Jesus. You are able to tie all these things together and say, if I can put these things together, I can prosper more. I can excel more. So fear can get you some results. But then if you want to shift levels and start rolling in life, then you must put some into it.
This healing, how do I work it at will? This excellence, how do I work in it at will? You start looking at it from God's word. That is why you must be given to listening to messages. Listening to anointed teacher of the word of God. You go to the DCN Telegram channel and get messages. So for instance, as a student, you see in Christ, I have wisdom. I am 10 times better than my peers. I have more understand than my teachers, and I know all things. There is a spirit in me and the inspiration of the almighty.
Gives me understanding. This anointing I have, I've received, teaches me all things. That is Sofia. But then you write an exam and you get health. It is not as though Sofia was wrong. It is because you have not heard that Sunezis. You will now see where Daniel was reading, how to read and not forget you study. You go to Telegram, get the message exam success blueprint, and you find out what to do before an exam, what to do during an exam, what to do after an exam to pass an exam. It's not a mystery. That means if I fail in these areas, I might fail.
That's part I have to fear. You see, when you analyze your failures, you will... Especially when you analyze your failure without bias, you will see where you were wrong. When you analyze your failure from a standpoint of pride and arrogance, you will say I did everything right. When I'm talking to a proud man who is not ready to pass or succeed, what it tells me is, sir, I read, I did everything right, I did everything I'm supposed to do, I did everything I'm supposed to do, yet that is a proud man. When you analyze situation from scriptures using sonesis, you'll be able to find out where wisdom was lacking in your activities. You would... The first thing you would say is this is what I did not do. A brother came to me and was sharing with me how that he was... He wanted to join the workforce.
But when he saw his results, he then changed his mind from joining the workforce because he felt as though when he joins the workforce, he would not be able to pass his exam. And I said, Kai, in my mind, I said, Kai, see how the devil deceives people. And I asked him. I said, sorry. That is what you got. Are you joining the workforce when you got it? He said, no, sir. And then so in your mind, now you now think it is the workforce that will make you fail. Sunesis, that's what is missing. You didn't fail because you joined the workforce.
You failed because you don't understand time management. That is Sunesis. It's in scriptures. I told my people from scriptures. Thank you, Jesus. Pastor nurses, let me hand it. Sofia will tell you many are the afflictions of men, but the Lord delivers him from all of it. That's Sofia. Is that not so? Sir.
The guy now says I'm waiting for God to deliver me. And my God shall deliver me. Because the bible says many are there are footons of men, But Lord God delivers him from them all. No. So nurses will now tell you, is any afflicted? Let him pray. So now realize that how your God will deliver you is when you pray. Now say, let me do one day's fasting and prayer, two days fasting and prayer. And then you begin to pray. And I go and pray.
And I go and pray. And I check again. And I know that this affliction is still there. I don't say, ah, that means it's not my time. Mm-mm. So nurses, I go and find the scriptures again. What don't I know about breaking out of oppressions? Breaking out of affliction. Then I see Psalm one zero seven, he sent his word, and his word healed them and delivered them. Said, so I went to pray, but I didn't have any word I'm praying with.
I just went in ignorance, and I was praying. Okay. That means I have to have a word. That is tsunesis. You are having a full understanding. A balanced understanding. And so you say I must get a word. So you start to start praying with scriptures, start reading scriptures, and suddenly a word comes out to you. The siege is over. And the moment you siege that God has spoken, I've received my word.
The siege is over. I didn't stand based on the word I have received. And I start declaring. This affliction comes to an end because the bible says, you see, this is how results are gotten. This is how promises are translated into realities and possibilities into experiences. Are you with me? Yes. Sofia shows you what you have. So nurses tells you what you should do with what you have. Not understanding how these two applies often cause problem.
So many times you see believer just confessing and confessing without the wisdom for application, and unbeliever will start laughing at them. The unbeliever says, that's the thing with these Christians. You people just don't use your brain until you are ashamed as a believer. God said, I have appointed Bezalil and Haholyab. I've put the spirit of wisdom upon them to make every craft. That is to nurses. If you understand this, you will never have a problem in your workplace. Even when they give you an impossible task, everybody will always try to swamp around you even if you're a student. If they... Because they know if they are in your group, they cannot fail.
Because that wisdom God has given you is. They have ability to comprehend anything. And if you if you give him work to do, even if he does not know how to do it, he will create a tool that ensures the work gets done. You have that wisdom working in you, you... Oh my god. Your life becomes remarkable, and you build that wisdom by spending time with the word of God, listening to messages. As you listen, you are getting applicable wisdom. You are understanding principles. You are knowing systems and working them together to know how does this wisdom work. Can we stop here?
Yes. Another time I will show you the third one. It is called Fronesis. Rise up on your feet. Rise up on your feet. If any man lacks wisdom, that's a mask. So the believer who stands from the standpoint of Sophia and all he says is my life is this. My life is that. I am this and that. We are understanding the applicable truths that makes what he's saying become a reality will often time be frustrated.
Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. The applicable truth that makes what is sin a reality. I really hope and I pray that even as I'm speaking, what I'm saying is entering you. Amen. For many of you, you'll start noting where it is you have... You might have been fortrained. You start noting where it is you might have been feeling. Some people, their problem is they are not even at the beginning of wisdom. They are not even there.
So fear is missing. And so whenever life happens to them, they can only see life from a limited perspective, from the standpoint of life as it happens. They have no superior perspective from when is they view life. If this is where you are, where to start from is forced to get Sofia. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Then we have people who are... Who might have gotten Sofia, but have no idea how to work with what they've been provided, how to work with what they've been given to translate that possibility into realities, into realities. The hallmark of wisdom, any type of wisdom, really, is application. Not just the knowledge of it, but the fortitude to apply what you are learning.
That is what differentiates wisdom from knowledge. And you can just know. And knowing alone doesn't change anything. It is the fortitude to apply that which you know that actually separates a fool from a wise man. Do you understand what I'm saying now? Yes, sir. Yes. And the Bible says that if a man lacks wisdom, let him ask. I want us to ask. Remember the Bible says Christ has been made wisdom unto you.
Yet the same Bible says if a man lacks wisdom, let him ask. The prayer is simple. Remember, I started by telling you that you must go with questions. Yes, sir. And these questions, when they are answered, it translates into wisdom. There are times when is what becomes the response of the question you asked. Suddenly, you find out what you should be doing. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Ephesians one seventeen, the prayer we started with is what we end with again. That the lord of our lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation.
With understanding now, can you pray for the spirit of wisdom? With understanding now, can you ask for wisdom? This mind I have is of the holy ghost. Will soul will praise your name till the very end. In Jesus name, he has answered. I declare over everyone that wisdom is supplied. Wherever you have taken steps in falling, today you know what to do. And as you go with anger to God with questions in your heart, I hope on the portals of encounters. In the name of Jesus. Listen.
The spirit is speaking to me and he's saying that it is someone... Just listen to me as an instruction for someone that you have that is impressed in your heart. Before now, I just sense that there is a shift of seasons to happen to you in the coming year. And the Lord is gonna make a demand from you. It will be more than you have ever given. It will be more than you have ever done. It will cost you. It will it will really cost you. It is something that will cost you. It's an amount that you have never given that the Lord will make a demand that you do.
It's not because I'm saying it, you will have an impression in your spirit. You have an impression in your heart. I hear that there is a shift of seasons that is just to happen from January for that individual. There will be a confirmation in your spirit that this is you. This is not for everybody. But the Lord says that there is a demand that he makes because starting from the year to come, there is an expansion and a shift that he will take you through. An expansion and a shift that he will take you through. And he will make a demand from you. That's that's... He will make a demand from you.
That's a sign. It's a sign that I'd not speak by myself. That's just a sign that I'm not speaking by myself. It will make a demand from you that will cost you. Yes. It will make a demand from you that will cost you. I see that it might even be something you have planned out, something you have carefully and thoughtfully planned out, allocated for a purpose. But he says I will make a demand of you because there is a shift that must happen. Thank you, Jesus. It will happen before the end of this year, I see.
A shift that must happen. I see for someone else in my spirit. Thank you, lord Jesus. Thank you, lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus. I see for someone else in my spirit that is before the end of this year, there are two doors that will open. Two doors that will open, and they are financial doors. And they will open. Before the end of this year, financial multiplication that I see. It might be a new door.
It might be something you have been negotiating that has been taking time already. But I just saw two doors opening, pow pow, in the name of the spirit, and God is telling me that there are two doors that will open for you, and you are entering into a new season even before the end of this year. As someone like that I'm seeing, entering into breaking into new possibilities, new levels, new shifts even before the end of this year. Thank God for what you have received. Thank God for what he has done. We believe you were blessed by this message to connect with the Disciples Christian Network and get more from Apostle Emmanuel. Follow us on our social media platforms. You can follow us on Instagram at officialdisciplescn. You can follow us on Facebook at disciples christian network. You can also join our telegram page at dcn media for more messages by Apostle Emmanuel.
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